language — I noun communication, composition, dialect, expression, faculty of speech, folk speech, form of expression, formulation, idiom, jargon, lingua, linguistics, means of communication, oral, oratio, parlance, phrasing, phraseology, rhetoric, sermo,… … Law dictionary
precatory — prec·a·to·ry / pre kə ˌtōr ē/ adj: expressing a wish or desire but not creating a legal obligation or affirmative duty a precatory remark the precatory words ◇ When interpreting wills, courts will look to whether a direction is precatory or… … Law dictionary
Constitution of Bhutan — Bhutan This article is part of the series: Politics and government of Bhutan Constitution Law of Bhutan … Wikipedia
Legal history of wills — Wills in the Ancient WorldThe will, if not purely Roman in origin, at least owes to Roman law its complete development, a development which in most European countries was greatly aided at a later period by ecclesiastics versed in Roman law. In… … Wikipedia
The Anglo-Saxon Church — The Anglo Saxon Church † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The Anglo Saxon Church I. ANGLO SAXON OCCUPATION OF BRITAIN The word Anglo Saxon is used as a collective name for those Teutonic settlers the foundation stock of the English race… … Catholic encyclopedia
will — 1 n 1: the desire, inclination, or choice of a person or group 2: the faculty of wishing, choosing, desiring, or intending 3: a legal declaration of a person s wishes regarding the disposal of his or her property after death; esp: a formally… … Law dictionary
Apology Resolution — The Apology Resolution is a U.S. Public Law adopted in 1993 in which the U.S. Government apologized for the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1893. The resolution has served as a major impetus for the Hawaiian sovereignty movement, and has… … Wikipedia
request — To ask or express a wish for something. Philomath College v Wyatt, 27 Or 390, 31 P 206, 216. Sometimes to direct or command, although in a delicate manner. In other words, a precatory word, subject to construction in a proper case as a mandatory… … Ballentine's law dictionary
